Code Blue is a bluegrass band born in New York state in the heart of the Hudson Valley. The band plays a mix of bluegrass styles ranging from traditional to progressive as well as bluegrass renditions of songs by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, and Bruce Springstein, to name a few. Code Blue has been a long-timefavorite choice for parties, festivals, and other events, and they are guaranteed to get your hands clappin’ and your feet movin’.

The Band:
Roy Streever (guitar) - Roy grew up in Western Sullivan County listening to the folk music of the sixties. He began playing guitar at age twelve and got bitten by the bluegrass bug around 1971. From the mid-1970s until the late 1980s, Roy played mandolin in the bluegrass bands “Southwind”, and “Probable Cause”, the latter band name relating to his law enforcement career.

Ed Ackerly (banjo) - When Ed is not involved in his banjo playing duties with Code Blue, he spends his time as a full-time, self-employed masonry contractor, full-time Dad, husband, homeowner, and maintenance specialist, along with other related responsibilities.

Kevin Monahan (mandolin) - Kevin spent 20 years playing electric guitar with various bands in the Hudson Valley. It wasn’t until 1990 that his long time love of bluegrass caught up with him. Starting on banjo and eventually moving to mandolin, he hasn’t looked back. His main influences are Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, DAWG, and Ricky Scaggs.

Leon Swyka (bass) - Leon Swyka was born in Middletown, NY in 1961. He has never lived more than ten miles from where he grew up on Pufftown Road in Scotchtown. He enjoyed playing music at an early age starting with violin, then guitar and mandolin, also banjo, and finally the bass, all along fiddling with the piano.